Joe Paterno:
Campaign ’72
By GLENN SHEELEY
Assistant Sports Editor
Joe Paterno’s been on so many planes lately he’s likely to
answer his Rec Hall telephone with a cheery, “This is your
captain speaking.”
Paterno, whose 11-1 Nittany Lions were ranked fifth in the
30-6 Cotton Bowl victory, is in the middle
of his present recruiting tour.'
His personal campaigning was “set
back temporarily this year while he
sunned himself on an 11-day tour on the
Queen Elizabeth with Penn State
alumnists Jan. 29-Feb. 8. The 12-game . ,
schedule the Lions playedlast year also
contributed to the delay. '
The situation is not.really that critical,
due to last year’s heavy draft which saw. “
Penn State dig up “around 40” recruits. ~‘ r
The agreement Penn State has with the ' SHEELEY
er members of ■ the Big- Four (Syracuse, Pitt and West
Virginia) limits 100 scholarships over a four-year period.
“We took so many kids last year because we never have
been at 100 for four years,’’ Paterno said. “We expect to get 22-
25 this year.” '
Paterno said the “crucial period” tor gathering ■ top
material is the middle of February, a span which had Paterno
and his assistant coaches airport-hopping around the country.
“We should know how we did within the next ten days,” he
said. “March 15 is the signing date for the Big Ten Conference.
There’s about eight or nine kids we kngw of that are torn
between Penn State and the Big Ten.” V "
Last year’s Penn State team featured numerous high school
quarterbacks performing appositions where they never got a
chaqce to pass the football. Paterno feels this typifies how the
Lion coaches seldom'restrict their search'solely to filling any
one position.
“We never look for one thing,” he said. “We look for a good
athlete the type of kid that fits into our program. You never
want to back yourself into a corner.” .
Paterno, who holds an unprecedented record of 53 wins, 11
losses and one tie in his six years at Penn State, has had dif
ficulty making believers of his team’s strength in the past. But
apparently his recruits don’t believe in the polls,' either.
“Right .now more people are interested in Penn State
football then have ever been since I’ve been here.” Paterno
said. “We get more letters from kids further away. We have a
better-shot at the really good ones:”
Penn State’s schedule has been a controversial matter in
recent years. The critics claim the Lions “never play anybody
tough.” Well, last year. Air Force and West Virginia gave
them a battle. Texas, a last-minute opponent, could have
easily done the same. Tennessee, as Paterno would like to
forget, won the fray.
This season’s card again pits Penn State against Tennessee
and Big Ten representative Illinois, who won five of its last six
games a year ago.
The Tennessee game is scheduled for Sept. 16at7:30p.m. in
Knoxville, _the site which last year spelled trouble as Penn
State lost 31-11. Officials of the two schools had originally
slated tl?£ game for Dec. 9. However, the Penn State people
later discovered the date was right smack in the middle of the
players’ final exam period.
“Tennessee understood we had a problem,” Paterno said,
“and we got a release from the contract. We negotiated for
what we felt would be fair to both of us. ”
An unfair negotiation, 'according to Paterno, would have
been an afternoon game in Tennessee amidst the South’s hot
summer sun. The compromise made it a cooler evening game.
Penn State already has six home games scheduled for the
upcoming season the reason given for the Tennessee site.
The television exposure, which somehow always manages to
enter into the picture, might still present itself to a Penn
State-Tennessee rematch.
Paterno said the chances of a telecast now are “poor”. But
ABC-TV has not yet released its schedule and the game would
seem to be an important one since the “season” for both
schools could be on the line.
Paterno will call his 1972 edition together April 8 for spring
practice. The Blue-White game, the final intrasquad contest,
is slated for May 13.
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Gymnasts favored to take EIGL’S
By MARK SIMENSON
Collegian Senior Reporter
Penn State has been
preparing for it's second
season, the Eastern In
tercollegiate Gymnastic
League Championship, ail
year long.
\ Tommorrow ' night coach
-Gene Wettstone will be able to
tell if his team did their
homework, namely prac
ticing the difficult com
pulsory routines that make up
half the team score.
Earlier-this year the NCAA
All-around
favorite
Intramural wrestling finals
These are the lineups for
intramural wrestling finals:
Fraternity
128 Alan Hughes (Phi
Kappa Theta) vs Tom Morck
(Acacia)
135 Bill Brown (Phi
Kappa Sigma) vs Dave Snell
142 Robert Bini (Acacia)
vs Chris Teaf (Phi Kappa
Sigma)
150 Ray Keeney (Delta
Theta Sigma) vs John Glantz
(Sigma Chi)
158 Mike DeMoise
7 (Kappa Sigma) vs Tom
Piscitelli (Delta Upsilon)
167 Jack Snyder (Phi
Gamma Delta) vs Dennis
Keller (Delta Theta Sigma)
176 Ed Wentzer (Lambda
Chi Alpha) vs Greg Palmer
(Phi Kappa Sigma)
190 Ed Croco (Phi Kappa
Theta) vs Gil Gahner (Phi
Kappa Psi)
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handed out a set of standards around men tor' tne Olympic
needed to reach the National trials.' Marshall Avener
tournament at lowa State topped the century point
April 6-8. The compulsory . mark Mast year in ’’ the
exercises on Thursday night Easterns as a sophomore and
are the official 1972 Olympic will probably repeat that feat,
requirements. Correcting problems
Any gymnasts whose total: that produce costly deduc
for the compulsory and op- . tions could yield two more
tional exercises exceeds 100 qualifiers in Billy Mitchell
points qualifies for the and Jim Kruest.
Olympic semifinals held at The Lions are over-
Berkley, California late in whelming favorites to win
May. Wettstone his 16th Eastern
One of Penn State’s goals is title. While they could
to qualify their three all- .dominate every event, the
MARSHALL AVENER, Penn State’s outstanding gymnast,
will be the leading contender for the all-around title in the
EIGL’s, scheduled for tomorrow and Friday at 7 p.m. and
Saturday at 7:30 in Rec Hall. Avener led coach Gene Wett
stone’s squad to an undefeated season this year.
Kappa Delta) vs Lee Stone
(Pi Kappa Phi)
Dormitory -
128 Merle Helsel
(Schuylkill) vs Howard Stock
(Lawrence)
135 Greg -Heist (Cam
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(Warren) ’ • ■
142 Rick Callahan
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[Cambria) '
150 Roger Reinhart
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[Montgomery)
158 Robert Peters
[Montgomery). vs Gary Snell
[Snyder) .
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[Northampton) vs Gary
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[Butler) vs Robert Bray
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State gymnasts are working
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total of compulsory and op
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that it places ahead of in the
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After two nights of. com- •
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for the third night in Rec Hall.
In the first two nights,-there
will be three events going on
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All-Around Avener is
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title as the Eastern all-around
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Connecticut Owls have
declined-to enter-this -year
leaving the mat routine open.
Avener, Mitchell and Jerry
Young’ were the next three
finishers and the medal could
be taken by any one of the
three Lions. ’
POMMEL HORSE Four
of the six 1971 finalists return
to Rec Hall, including
medalist John Worthington of
Navy. Worthington’s 18.90
"was the top individual score
among the event winners.
Avener placed third and Eric
Swanson of Navy took fourth.
STILL RINGS Mitchell
and Vince Faust are the State
contenders in this event. The
Lion captain took, second last
year on the rings, his best
event.
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The Lions swept the first four
finishing spots last year with
Jim Kruest winning the
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Atkins could give State the
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Genest of Massachusetts will
defend : his medal on the
parallel bars while the Lions’
best swinger is Avener. Penn.
State also dominated this
event at Amherst last year by
taking the -second through
sixth places.
HORIZONTAL BAR Dan-
Pillasch of Army is now on
military duty, leaving the
high bar to Avener. This is .the
Lion junior’s best event, score
wise. Kruest also does well on
the high bar. .
As you can see, most of the
names mentioned are those
belonging . to Penn State
gymnasts. The Lions' will
dominate the show with the
most competition being of the
intrateam variety.
Ivy League champ Cornell
has been added to this year's
get together, but the Big Red
won’t make' a dent in the
Lions 1972 Eastern Cham
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' While Penn State is not out
-to.collectmedals,.they will be
the owners of most of them
when the contest concludes on
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